On the morning of 7 December, services were held in the Church of the Vernicle in the Winter Palace. The yearly General Meeting took place in the Hermitage Theatre. The Director’s press conference was devoted to a review of 2017 and the events and exhibitions that are planned for 2018.

On 6 December 2017, a children’s event with the theme “The Glowing Colours of Stained Glass” was held in the Hermitage to mark the end of the complete refurbishment of the School Centre (Research and Instructional Methodology Department).

On 7 December 2017, the Hermitage Theatre was the venue for the traditional press conference given by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, in which he reviewed the museum’s work in 2017 and spoke about its plans and projects.

On 5 December 2017, the exhibition “In the land of Dilmun, where the Sun rises…”, organized in conjunction with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and the National Museum of Bahrain, opened in the State Hermitage.

On 5 December 2017, the Hermitage Theatre was the setting for a ceremony devoted to the presentation of the Grand Prix of the Iskusny Glagol competion, a joint project of the State Hermitage, the Vladimir Potanin Foundation and the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts.

The State Hermitage’s Editorial and Publishing Department participated in the International Non-Fiction Book Fair that was held from 29 November to 3 December 2017 at the Central House of Artists in Moscow.

The State Hermitage is continuing the series of pin-point exhibitions and events connected with the 100th anniversary of the revolution. On 28 November 2017, the Hermitage Theatre was the venue for the evening event “No Path Through Fire”. Cinema and Music that was devoted to the centenary of the re

On 4 December 2017, as part of the Hermitage Days, the traditional Internet meeting with Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage, took place in the CaféMax in the museum’s Rastrelli Gallery.

On 1 December 2017, the halls of the State Hermitage’s School Centre became the setting for a party given for children with intellectual disabilities from remedial schools No. 34, 370 and 522, who regularly visit the museum under the special programme Our Hermitage. The event was timed for the Inter

On 1 December 2017, the Council Hall of the State Hermitage was the setting for a ceremony at which the Administration of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for the North-Western Federal District transferred five icons to the State Hermitage.